Juana Rodriguez

“no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text.”
― Juana Maria Rodriguez, Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces

“The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.”
― José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

“You're so beautiful, I feel sick.”
― Torrey Peters, Stag Dance

“[on the internet] “wearing sweatpants and a tee shirt, I found it easy and intensely gratifying to relish the compliments and heterosexual advances of men I surely would have avoided had I encountered them in person.”
― Juana Maria Rodriguez, Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces